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Section of Physical
Technical and
Mathematical Sciences
Mathematics, general
physics and astronomy,
nuclear physics,
physical and technical
problems of energy,
mechanics, and control
processes.
Chart 1
Sections of the USSR Academy in 1969
The Council of
Ministers of the
USSR
The General Assembly
of the AN SSR
The Presidium
Section of
Chemotechnical
and Biological
Sciences
General and
technological
chemistry, physical
chemistry and the
technology of inorganic
materials,
biochemistry,
biophysics, and the
chemistry of
physiologically active
compounds, physiology
and general biology.
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Section of
Earth
Sciences
Geology,
geophysics,
geochemistry,
oceanography,
atmospheric
physics and
geography.
Section of Social
Sciences
History, philosophy
and law, economics,
literature, and
linguistics.
Source: The Great Soviet Encyclopedia. New
York: Macmillan, Vol. I, 1973.
The Academy Today:
With the elevation of the Far Eastern and Urals Scientific Centers to Department status in
the mid-1980s and with the establishment of the subject-matter Departments of
Information Science, Computer Technology, and Automation (1984) and Problems
of World Economics and International Relations (1988), the academy reached its
present stage of development. In 1989, scientific research institutes numbered 558 in
the Soviet academic science system. In 1991, the annual statistical publication of the
AN SSSR listed a total of 365 institutes under control of the Presidium of the AN
SSSR, excluding institutes under the Agricultural, Medical, and Pedagogical
Academies and the institutes under the other 14 former republic academies of
science. When those are added to the 365 institutes under the Moscow Academy,
total numbers of institutes within the academic science system range from 577 to
607. The differences in these figures may be accounted for by institutes in
previously closed cities and those working in classified military research. Such
numbers, despite the differences shown in this range, show the magnitude of the
basic research effort in the former Soviet Union and in Russia today. The Chemotechnical
and Biological Sciences sector boasts of the greatest longevity in Russian
science, though only 36 percent of their 184 institutes saw birth before 1946; 64
percent of their institutes developed after that date. The Social Sciences sector
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